2.12.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity:
Minna Palander-Collin
TRACING SOCIETAL CHANGE THROUGH LINGUISTIC SHIFTS
Professor Minna Palander-Collin gave a talk on Tracing Societal Change Through Linguistic Shifts on December. This was the year’s last lecture in the lecture series Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity. Palander-Collin talked about her new and previous research projects. She and her research group have used for example corpus methods in their research on the fields of sociolinguistics and social history. She is interested in how changes in language practices and social factors are interrelated and how this relationship can be operationalized in research.
18.11.2016 Tiedonmuodostusseminaari
University of Helsinki
Download seminar presentation here (pdf, in Finnish)
Miten mieltä koskeva tieto rakentuu ja kehittyy?
Seminar on sociology, neurobiology and psychoanalysis. Speakers were professor Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki), professor Kai Kaila (University of Helsinki) ja docent Jussi Kotkavirta (University of Helsinki)
4.11.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity:
Simona Pekarek-Doehler
EPISTEMICS AND THE BODY: TURN-INITIAL AND TURN-FINAL USES OF ‘JE SAIS PAS’ (‘I DON’T KNOW’) IN FRENCH TALK-IN-INTERACTION
Professor Simona Pekarek-Doehler (University of Neuchâtel) gave a talk on Epistemics and the body: Turn-initial and turn-final uses of je sais pas ’I don’t know’ in French talk-in-interaction as a part of the lecture series Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity. Pekarek-Doehler dealt with the functions of je sais pas positioned at the beginning and at the end of a turn.
Pekarek-Doehler studies turn-initial je sais pas expressions in responses to questions and in turn-extension or turn-final expressions in sequence-initiating actions. The function of the expression depends on how it is positioned.
7.10.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity: Raimo Tuomela
NON-REDUCTIVE VIEWS OF SHARED INTENTIONALITY
Professor Raimo Tuomela (University of Helsinki) was the first guest lecturer of the fall 2016. The topic of his talk was Non-reductive views of shared intentionality. Tuomela is a philosopher who has studied especially philosophy of social sciencies. One of his latest books, Social ontology (2013), elaborates a notion of collective intentionality. Tuomela’s lecture was mainly based on this book, and it dealt with a distinction between ‘we-mode’ and ‘i-mode’ intentions.
30.9.2016 Tutkijoiden yö (Night of the researchers)
Tiedekulma, Helsinki
13.5.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity: Kristin Davidse
(INTER)SUBJECTIVITY IN THE ENGLISH NOUN PHRASE: SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY
Professor Kristin Davidse gave a talk on (Inter)subjectivity in the English Noun Phrase: Synchrony and Diachrony. Davidse was the last speaker of the spring in the lecture series Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity. In her presentation, Davidse introduced intersubjectivity and subjecitivity in the English noun phrase and dealt with language change. Davidse works as a professor in the University of Leuven in Belgium.
8.4.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity: John W. Du Bois
EPISTEMICS AND THE BODY: TURN-INITIAL AND TURN-FINAL USES OF ‘JE SAIS PAS’ (‘I DON’T KNOW’) IN FRENCH TALK-IN-INTERACTION
Professor John W. Du Bois gave a talk on Intersubjectivity as sociocognitive coupling – Dynamics of Dialogic Engagement. The talk was a part of the lecture series Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity. Du Bois presented how interlocutors can be united in conversation and how they even can constitute themselves, jointly, as a sociocognitively and socioaffectively coupled system. For example, he dealt with the role of empathy when constructing this kind of intersubjectivity.
11.3.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity: Jutta Jokiranta
SOCIAL SCIENCES MEET BIBLICAL STUDIES: CONVERSATIONS WITH SOCIAL IDENTITY AND MAGICAL AGENCY
Academy Research Fellow Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki, Team Leader in Centre of Excellence in Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions) was this spring’s third speaker in the lecture series ‘Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity’. She gave a lecture on Social sciences meet biblical studies: Conversations with social identity and magical agency. Jokiranta introduced how she as a biblical scholar employs concepts and theories from social sciences. In her work with the ancient texts, she deals with rituals and social identities of the ancient authors and their audiences.
9.3.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity: Mikael Leiman
PRIMARY INTERSUBJECTIVITY – A MYTH?
The second speaker of this spring’s Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity was emeritus professor Mikael Leiman (Univesity of Eastern Finland), who gave a lecture on Primary intersubjectivity – a Myth? Leiman talked on intersubjectivity in development of the individual.
According to Leiman there are two fundamental sign systems; primitive and lingual. In his lecture Leiman talked on how signs are mediated in interaction.
15.1.2016 Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity: Dan Zahavi
ANONYMITY, INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND THE SELF-OTHER DIFFERENTIATION
The first speaker of this spring’s Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity was professor Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen). His talk was titled Anonymity, intersubjectivity and the self-other differentiation. Professor Zahavi is currently located in Copenhagen in the Center for Subjectivity Research, the research subject of which is close to the Center of Excellence’s. In his talk Zahavi discussed the relation of subjectivity and intersubjectivity and presented different views on how to conceive of the self-other relation.
